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-====== Android Storage Made Easy ======
-===== 1 Android Storage Made Easy: Getting started =====
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-Android Storage Made Easy enables you to manage,share and collaborate with your Cloud Files from one easy interface on the Android Operating System.\\ \\ The sign in screen is where you can sign into your Storage Made Easy Account. You need a valid account with StorageMadeEasy.com to do this. There are many free accounts so all you need to do is sign up.  \\ \\ Clouds Supported include:\\ \\ Google Docs\\ Amazon S3\\ RackSpace Cloud Files\\ Box.net\\ MobileMe\\ Microsoft SKyDrive\\ Microsoft Live Mesh\\ FTP\\ GMail\\ Email (POP3 or IMAP)\\ Mezeo\\ \\ If you are not yet signed up you can register on the website StorageMadeEasy.com where you need to setup the Cloud Provider(s) that you wish to use with this service. After you have done this return to the Android Storage Made Easy application and sign in.
-===== 2 Android Storage Made Easy: Main Menu =====
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-The first screen you see after logging in is the Menu. From this screen you can choose which functions you would like to invoke. This is the main menu screen you navigate back to/from your menu choices.
-===== 3 Android Storage Made Easy: Cloud Files =====
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-When you click on 'My Cloud Files' from the Main Menu, you are taken to the File Browser Screen. Here you can see all your Cloud Files and folders from a single cloud or many clouds depending on which clouds you have mapped to your account.   \\ The Cloud file system is navigated as you would a normal file system.\\ \\ If a key is shown against a file in the file browser, this means it is password protected and you will need to enter the password that you created when you uploaded the file before you can access it on Your Android Device\\ \\ Each File has many options that can used agains the file.
-===== 4 Android Storage Made Easy: File Menu =====
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-The menu has options as to what you can do with the File.   The options are as follows:\\ \\ **Download and View:** Downloads the files to the local files folder and if the file is a supported file type lets you view it.\\ \\ **Download:** Downloads the file to the local files folder where it can be accessed offline\\ \\ **Send Link:** Creates   an email with a link to the file that you can send to a friend or colleague\\ \\ **Share:** Enables you to share the file with a collaboration group that you have setup.\\ \\ **Make Favorite:** Makes the file a favorite so that you can view it from the Favorites menu option.\\ \\ **Make Public:** This makes the file pubilc in Storage Made Easy which means it appears on your Public Files page, whose URL is StorageMadeEasy.com/<username>.\\ \\ **Add / Remove from Clipboard:** If you want to share many files from different clouds you can choose to add them to the iSMEStorage Clipboard and when finished go to the clipboard and choose to share the files that reside there which will result in an email being created with the file links of the files you shared.\\ \\ **Get TinyURL Link:** This gets a unique link for the file that you can share and copies it to the iPhone clipboard for use in other iPhone programs.\\ \\ **Share with Twitter:** This option only appears if you have entered your Twitter details in Storage Made Easy. If you have, you can create a message and share your file directly on Twitter.\\ \\ **Rename:** Enables you to rename the file\\ \\ **New Folder:** Creates a new folder in the given directory\\ \\ **Delete:** This deletes a file form your Storage Made Easy Cloud Files view and moves it to Trash. It does not remove it from the underlying cloud unless you visit the website at StorageMadeEasy.com and choose to remove Trash. You can also set this up as Cloud Tasks options that you can start from the phone.
-===== 5 Android: Uploading a picture =====
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-When you navigate to a directory and have not yet selected a file, you will see two menu choices:\\ \\ 1. New Folder - enables you to create a new cloud folder.\\ 2. Upload Picture - enables you to upload a picture to this folder from you albums.\\ \\ Note that which underlying cloud these reside on (if you have a multi cloud account) will depend on which cloud has been set as your Primary Cloud Provider from Providers if you are using any of the multi-cloud root folders (such as My Pictures etc). If you are within a cloud directory (such as My Google Docs, My Amazon S3 etc) then they will be uploaded to this cloud provider despite what cloud primary you have set to be the primary.
-===== 6 Android Storage Made Easy: Favorites =====
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-Any file that is marked as a favorite in the File Menu is available for easy viewing From the Favorites menu. This is a handy way to get quick access to frequently used files.\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\
-===== 7 iSMEStorage: Cloud Clipboard =====
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-**  **If you want to share many files (and even from different clouds !) you can choose to add them to the iSMEStorage Clipboard from the File Menu, and when you are finished you can go to the Clipboard and choose to share the files that reside there. This will result in an email being created with the file links of the files you shared.
-===== 8 Android Storage Made Easy: Cloud Clipboard =====
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-You can add files to the cloud clipboard when you are navigating your cloud files and then return to the cloud clipboard to send a link to all files from the same email.
-===== 9 Android Storage Made Easy: Cloud Tasks =====
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-Cloud tasks represent tasks that you have either setup or that have completed on Storage Made Easy. These invariably represent one of three things:\\ \\ 1. Sync'ing Storage Made Easy meta-information with your Cloud(s)\\ 2. Backing up email\\ 3. Emptying Trash\\ \\ From here you can check the status if they are scheduled, or you can choose to rerun tasks that have occurred previously but are completed. For example if you have previously sync'd your Amazon S3 File information with Storage Made Easy but want to redo the sync as you have entered files using another Amazon client you could do it from here. The same goes for any task.\\ \\ Note that you can rename the sync title   that you see from   the 'Cloud Sync Tasks' menu option which can access from the sidebar when logged into StorageMadeEasy.com
-===== 10 Android Storage Made Easy: Groups =====
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-You can create new collaboration groups directly from the Phone. Collaboration groups are groups you setup to share file content with members. You only need to share a file with the Group and all members get an email letting them know the filename that you shared with the group and that it is available for them to view.  \\ \\ Note, You can control whether members can be collaborators from the Groups Menu with the Storage Made Easy FIle Manager from StorageMadeEasy.com
-===== 11 Android Storage Made Easy: Sync =====
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-The Storage Made Easy Android Sync has been updated so you can sync from a local directory to your cloud or from a cloud directory to your phone.\\ \\ To add a directory from your phone to be kept in sync within the root directory of your primary cloud storage provider:\\ \\ 1. Click My Syncs\\ 2. Click Add Folder - this will take you into Android Directory Structure (see picture 1)\\ 3. Navigate into the folder you wish to add and choose "Add folder" from the menu\\ \\ To add a directory from your cloud to the phone:\\ \\ 1. Click "Files on clouds:\\ 2. Click on the directory you wish to add to be sync'd to your phone (see picture 2)\\ \\ \\ To sync:\\ \\ When you are ready to sync:\\ \\ 1. Navigate to My Syncs\\ 2. Click on the directory you wish to sync from My Syncs\\ 3. Click Sync now\\ 4. Repeat for each directory you added, whether it is added from the phone or the cloud.\\ \\ Each Time you wish to refresh your Cloud Files view, all you need to do is to go to 'My Syncs', select any directory you wish to refresh and choose to sync from the menu. Any updated or new files will be sync'd up to your Cloud of choice or down to the phone.
-===== 12 Android Storage Made Easy: Local files =====
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-There is a local file browser that you can use to go back to files that you have viewed and downloaded from the cloud that are stored in a local directory on the phone. If you choose to delete a file you can also choose to delete the file on the cloud.\\ \\ You can also navigate your directory structure and copy files to this folder if you wish.
-===== 13 Android Storage Made Easy: Cloud Notes =====
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-You can create notes directly in Android Storage Made Easy. There is no formatting, these are simply text files. The advantage of creating them in Storage Made Easy is that can be sync'd back to your underlying cloud, such as SkyDrive or Google Docs for example.\\ \\ If you have a multi-cloud account and change your primary provider then then memos could end up being stored on different clouds. You may want this, but then again you may not, so be aware of this. From the sync viewpoint it does not matter as all memos will still be sync'd back to the phone.\\ \\
-===== 14 Android Storage Made Easy: Cloud Providers =====
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-The Cloud Providers screen lets you change your primary storage provider. If you have a single cloud account you will only seen one option here but if you have an account that has more than provider you will see a choice. Just click on the Provider that you wish to be primary.\\ \\ Changing the provider will means that the upload location for photos and memos will change to the cloud you just made the default provider.  \\ \\ Note that if you have created and sync;d existing memos to one cloud they will continue to reside there. Any new memos created will reside on the new primary cloud. You will just see a view that shows you all memos.\\ \\ \\
-===== 15 Android Storage Made Easy: Search =====
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-You can search for your files easily by clicking the search option on the Main Menu. If you have more than one cloud mapped to Storage Made Easy then the search will be done on the criteria you select against all clouds. For example if you have SkyDrive, Amazon S3, and Google Docs mapped to your Cloud and you search for '.doc files' then the search will be done against all Cloud Providers and the results returned.